Founding members, Helmuth and Sigurd, are currently looking for a talented replacement. Everybody who is interested and fits the requirements may contact the
band's management: belphegor@aon.at. Requirements:

* You don't need to be Austrian but be able to rehearse in Austria
* You are a professional musician - stage / tour experience preferred
* You are absolutely tight and you can play with click
* You are 100% into touring, festivals, shows, studio recording sessions
* You are generally interested in Death / Black Metal music

Source:	belphegor.at
Band profile:	Belphegor

S A M A E L finished the pre-production of their new album, tentatively due out before the end of the year. They spent a week checking new songs with Europe's most wanted producer: Waldemar Sorychta.

They are currently in the studio recording bass and guitars; sessions started in July and will go on throughout August.

Source:	samael.tv
Band profile:	Samael

Progressive metal act Symphony X has set "Paradise Lost" as the title of the follow-up to 2002's "The Odyssey", tentatively due before the end of the year. The band expects to return to the road shortly after the release of the new album.

Source:	blabbermouth.net
Band profile:	Symphony X

It's taken them a very long time, but veteran heavy metal band Metallica and its noted anti-piracy spokesman Lars Ulrich have apparently finally seen the light. After years of moaning about how mp3 downloads are costing him money, Lars Ulrich and Metallica are finally giving themselves the chance to earn some of it back by offering their music for sale on iTunes.

Back in 2000 or so, there was a spirited battle going on in the online world between illicit downloading services offering free and easy downloads of copyrighted music on one side, and the traditional music industry on the other.

Source:	canada.com
Band profile:	Metallica

A brand new Slayer track, entitled "Skeleton Christ", was premiered Tuesday night (August 1) on the "Mike Davies Rock Show" on BBC Radio 1. Listen to a replay of the program here (the track appears at around the 19:06:30 mark).

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Slayer

Edge Of Sanity, the acclaimed Swedish band led by producer/multi-instrumentalist Dan Swanö, has finalized the track listing for its upcoming double CD collection, "The Best of Edge of Sanity". According to Dan, "one disc will feature the highlights of the more 'normal' studio albums and the mini-album 'Until Eternity Ends' (1994)," while "the second disc will be packed with 'Crimson' (1996) and 'Crimson II' (2003) in slightly edited versions. All songs will be remastered."

"The Best of Edge of Sanity" track listing:

Disc A:

01. Tales?
02. Human Aberration
03. Enigma
04. In The Veins/Darker Than Black
05. Lost
06. The Masque
07. Until Eternity Ends
08. Eternal Eclipse
09. Twilight
10. Black Tears
11. 15:36
12. Hell Is Where The Heart Is
13. Hellwritten
14. Bleed You Dry

Disc B:

Crimson (full album)
Crimson II (full album)

Source:	roadrunnerrecords.com
Band profile:	Edge Of Sanity

'Christ Illusion' will be in stores this Tuesday, but you can listen to the whole damn thing exclusively on Myspace this weekend. Head over to http://myspace.com/slayer to check it out.

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Source:	slayer.net
Band profile:	Slayer

It was only a matter of time until Nuclear Blast released another Deluxe Edition of another Children Of Bodom album after the two very successful Deluxe Editions of Something Wild and Hatebreeder. Aside from the nine known songs there will be the W.A.S.P. cover "Hellion" and the Iron Maiden cover "Aces High", (which was never released on a Children Of Bodom CD before) as bonus on the disc. The 'Everytime I Die' video will be featured as well. There likely won't be any more Deluxe Editions since only the first three Children Of Bodom albums were licensed by Nuclear Blast.

Tracklist:
1. Follow The Reaper
2. Bodom After Midnight
3. Children Of Decadence
4. Everytime I Die
5. Mask Of Sanity
6. Taste Of My Scythe
7. Hate Me!
8. Northern Comfort
9. Kissing The Shadows
10. Hellion (Bonus track)
11. Aces High (Bonus track)
12. Everytime I Die (Video)

Source:	endlesswar.net
Band profile:	Children Of Bodom

Dan Swanö is no longer part of Bloodbath. The reason being restrictions on his behalf to devote more time and effort to the future of this project that it would require by taking things to the next level i.e. touring and playing live. Moreover, his future vision for Bloodbath's concept proved to head in the almost opposite direction as his desire for death metal was to be of a less brutal kind, something the remaining members regard as musical differences not interesting to pursue, so at these crossroads, they'd like to wish Dan Swanö good luck with his future endeavors and with the music that's closer to his heart.

Source:	bloodbath.biz
Band profile:	Bloodbath